Thousands of pro-Trump rioters storm the United States Capitol building following a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters had gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory in the 2020 election. Photo by Spencer Platt || Getty Images
JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY
Arizona Mirror
At around 3:18 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, a rioter pulled Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd, where he was tased and beaten, as an angry mob continued to try to break into the U.S. Capitol building. The Lower West Terrace was the scene of some of the most violent skirmishes. Roughly 30 minutes later, Republican Sen. Janae Shamp, of Surprise, was in the crowd, watching things unfold.
In footage provided to the Arizona Mirror by extremist researchers, Shamp, along with her husband, can be seen in the large crowd that gathered along the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol on Jan. 6 outside of a tunnel entrance that became the forefront of violent clashes that would turn deadly.
Rosanne Boyland, a Trump fan there that day to support the former president, would die from acute amphetamine intoxication while attempting to help others breach the Capitol through the small tunnel that police officers had been holding for hours. Footage reviewed by the Mirror shows Shamp not far from Boyland moments before she is overtaken by the crowd, however, Shamp was not directly involved with Boyland or the violence that occurred.
The footage reviewed led the Mirror to discover additional video of Shamp and her husband in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6. It also helped the Mirror establish a timeline of where Shamp was and shed further light on her beliefs, uncovered by independent extremist researcher Haley Orion, known online as Arizona Right Wing Watch, who sent the Senator a friend request to her private Gab account.
“I knew January 7th on our way home from Washington DC that We the People must get involved in or the corruption is going to destroy our beautiful Republic!” a Telegram post, viewed by the Mirror, from Shamp says.
